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Grammar Without Grammaticality : Growth and Limits of Grammatical Precision.

Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sampson, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013], ©2013.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical di.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-334) and index.
ISBN:3110290014
9783110290011